🌞 Let the Fire Catch: A Solstice Spell for Courage & Becoming

The longest day is here.
Litha, the summer solstice — when the sun stands still and the world ripens beneath its golden breath.
This is the season of full bloom, of warmth on bare skin, of fire in the belly and light pouring into shadowed corners.

At The Wild Daughter, we honour these turning points not as deadlines or obligations,
but as invitations.
Litha calls not for perfection — but presence.
To let the light reach the parts of us still hidden.
To rise, not just gently, but powerfully.

🌻 What the Sun Has Taught Me

The sun does not apologise for being too much.

It shines, even when not everyone is ready.
It stretches wide and burns bright,
and still it rests — slowly,
later and later each night until it knows it’s time to turn again.

And so must we.

This season reminds us:
You are allowed to take up space.
You are allowed to be seen.
You are allowed to want.

🔥 Ways to Honour the Solstice

Let this Litha be a simple celebration of your aliveness. Here are gentle, grounded ways to mark the fire:

• Light a candle at golden hour — whisper a wish into the flame

• Dress in sunlight colours — gold, yellow, cream, rust, ochre

• Walk barefoot in the grass — let the warmth of the earth root you

• Create a botanical altar — herbs like calendula, lavender, rosemary, and rose call in the sun’s energy

• Write a fire spell — something you’re ready to burn through and rise beyond

• Make solar tea — try lemon balm, calendula, rose petals, steeped in sunlight

• Move your body — dance, stretch, sway, or still yourself and just breathe

🔮 Solstice Spell: Let the Fire Catch

I light this flame
not to destroy
but to awaken
the wild truth within me.

May the fire catch
where courage has gone quiet.
May it burn
only what I no longer need.

I welcome light.
I welcome bloom.
I welcome the sun inside me.

Speak it aloud. Feel it in your bones. Let it be simple — and let it be enough.

🌕 As the Light Peaks

We don’t need to “do” the solstice perfectly.
We just need to notice it.
The way the light lands.
The way our inner rhythms stretch and swell.
The quiet voice saying: It’s okay to take up more space now.

Let Litha be your reminder:
You are already blooming.